wide-spreading

Among other things, where the seals hauled up out of the sea, I built wide-spreading wings of low rock walls that narrowed to a cul de sac, where I might conveniently kill such seals as entered without exciting their fellows outside and without permitting any wounded or frightening seal to escape and spread a contagion of alarm.

Chapter 19 2010

And the blind man and the dog, from midnight to dawn, successfully fought off twelve men equipped with the thunder of gunpowder and the wide-spreading, deep-penetrating, mushroom bullets of soft lead.

CHAPTER XVIII 2010

No general movement of man has been so wide-spreading, so far-reaching.

THE QUESTION OF THE MAXIMUM 2010

Among other things, where the seals hauled up out of the sea, I built wide-spreading wings of low rock walls that narrowed to a cul de sac, where I might conveniently kill such seals as entered without exciting their fellows outside and without permitting any wounded or frightening seal to escape and spread a contagion of alarm.

Chapter 19 2010

Above them, casting a shelter of shade from the sun, grew a wide-spreading canopy of Ponciana regia, itself a flame of blossoms, out of each of which sprang pom-poms of feathery stamens.

THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

Under wide-spreading ancient oaks, where the long hitching-rails, bark-chewed, and the hoof-beaten gravel showed the stamping place of many horses, he found a pale-golden, almost tan-golden, sorrel mare.

CHAPTER II 2010

I do not know, save that it was centuries before the wide-spreading drift of all us Sons of the Mountain fetched into India, and that it was long before ever I was an Aryan master in Old Egypt building my two burial places and defacing the tombs of kings before me.

Chapter 21 2010

There were no swelling muscles, no abundant thews and wide-spreading shoulders.

A VISION OF THE NIGHT 2010

The chest was deep, it is true, cavernously deep; but there were no full-swelling muscles, no wide-spreading shoulders, no clean-limbed straightness, no generous symmetry of outline.

CHAPTER III 2010

Streamers of Spanish moss dripped from the wide-spreading branches of the majestic live oak lording over the backyard of the only home Wyatt had ever known.

Risk No Secrets Cindy Gerard 2010